Senior Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Your Career

In the role of Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Assessment Research team, you will serve as a respected technical leader within the organization, collaborating frequently across teams. You will be responsible for overseeing projects from inception to execution as either the project lead or mentor, guiding the design and implementation process. Additionally, you will take the lead in coordinating planned work across the product in conjunction with product management, UX design, and other engineering stakeholders. Leveraging your broad perspective, you will identify and address existing and potential challenges and collaborate with senior engineers and department leadership to analyze and resolve them effectively.

Your Impact 

As a Senior Principal Software engineer on the Vulnerability Assessment Research team, you will:

• Work regularly across teams as an acknowledged technical leader in the organization
• Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation as project lead or mentor thereof
• Lead efforts to align planned work across the product in collaboration with product management, UX design, and fellow engineering stakeholders
• Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them
• Proactively spot, articulate, and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution and high output. This may include providing ad hoc mentorship, communicating with project stakeholders, or rolling up your sleeves and stepping in to help move things along
• Guide the key technical work on the team, including shaping architectural decisions, communicating impact and requirements to stakeholders, and driving toward end-to-end value
• Mentor engineers across the department
• Regularly provide cross-team technical collaboration and consultation
• Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery
• Design and build business logic and API endpoints using Python

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 8+ years of industry experience as a professional software engineer building customer-facing software for a SaaS business
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and architecture, including an understanding of what it takes to deploy and maintain such systems
• Experience with on-prem deployment and the risks associated with shipping software to a customer environment
• Good understanding of networking and cybersecurity fundamentals
• Extensive experience providing technical leadership within and across teams building enterprise features on a  multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale
• Excitement to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production
• Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure

• Expert knowledge and informed opinions on at least one of:

  • Databases, data modeling, profiling, and performance optimization

  • Methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency

  • API design and distributed backend systems

• BS in computer science or related engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience or equivalent military experience required
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (ideally in Python)
• Experience using cloud managed services (ideally in GCP)